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Feds seek to seize SB shooter's life insurance

Posted: 7:55 PM, May 31, 2016

Updated:2016-05-31 23:55:49Z

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Associated Press

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<p>FILE - In this July 27, 2014 file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and her husband, Syed Farook, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. For a crisis counselor who lost a loved one in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the last six months have been a journey on the other side of crisis. Mandy Pifer's boyfriend, Shannon Johnson, was one of the 14 people killed in the December 2015 mass shooting by Malik and Farook. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP, File)</p>

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors have filed a lawsuit to seize payments on life insurance policies taken out by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook before the December attacks.

The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles filed the civil asset forfeiture lawsuit on Tuesday for the two policies worth a total of $275,000.

Farook took out the two policies, one worth $25,000 in 2012 and the other, worth $250,000, in 2013, prosecutors said.

His mother was named as beneficiary of both.

The U.S. attorney's office says that under federal law, assets derived from terrorism against the United States are subject to forfeiture.

A message left with Farook family attorneys seeking comment on the lawsuit was not immediately returned.

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